Another Take: A radical antidote for climate despair
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on November 14, 2022. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been changed.
Fossil fuels are a time bomb, and humans are entitled to stop them. That’s the argument of “How to Blow Up a Pipeline,” a book by Andreas Malm calling for activist groups like Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion to adopt radical tactics against the fossil fuel industry, including property damage. As COP27 enters its second week, greenwashing is rife, protest is limited, and fossil fuel emissions are still rising. After over a quarter-century of UN-sponsored talking, Malm argues it’s time for people to take action into their own hands.
In this episode:
- Andreas Malm, author of “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” and professor at Lund University
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Tamara Khandaker. The original production team was Alexandra Locke, Negin Owliaei, Chloe K. Li, Ruby Zaman, and our host Halla Mohieddeen, in for Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editor is Hisham Abu Salah. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:09.7 | Hi, it's Tamara Kandakar, producer with the take, and this is another take, where we revisit stories from the archives. |
| 0:18.8 | Frustration at this year's UN climate conference, COP29, |
| 0:23.5 | seems to be higher than ever. |
| 0:25.6 | The conference ended on Friday. |
| 0:28.3 | It is clearly unacceptable as it stands now. |
| 0:31.0 | The time for political games is over. |
| 0:33.5 | We are deeply disappointed. |
| 0:35.7 | This is not even a joke. |
| 0:37.7 | It is an offence to demands of the global South. |
| 0:43.1 | In 2022, we talked to author Andreas Malm |
| 0:47.0 | about the consequences of that inaction |
| 0:49.5 | and why civil disobedience is on the rise. |
| 0:53.3 | All references are from November 14th, 2022. |
| 1:03.6 | Another year, another climate conference, another slew of dire warnings. |
| 1:10.0 | We are on a highway to climate hell |
| 1:12.5 | with our foot still on the accelerator. |
| 1:16.5 | The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu said climate change |
| 1:19.6 | is the apartheid of our times. |
| 1:23.7 | Yet emissions are still rising. |
| 1:26.6 | And of the nearly 200 countries that pledged to improve their emissions targets last year, before this COP, only 24 had actually done it. |
| 1:36.3 | Now, this year's COP features even more oil and gas lobbyists than the year before. |
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